Monastic incarceration is castration.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.